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Mar 6, 2016
03/16
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Mostly raw clips except for correcting strong fisheye distortion generated by one of the cameras. Both shoot 1080P but this is scaled to 720P due to bandwidth constraints. One camera is a cheap go-pro clone (semi-fisheye lens) , the other an old variable lens handheld video camera with a broken monitor screen cable. Lens kept zoomed all the way out on that one. Fisheye better up close, other camera better at night so both used. Action details: On the 5th of March, the racist "National...
Topic: dcdirectactionnews
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Jun 11, 2018
06/18
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Bianca Palmisano
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At 11PM on the 9th of June, No Justice No Pride marched from 2nd and K sts in DC to give the cops something else to do besides hassling sex workers. Video cropped from Bianca Palmisano's Twitter video.
Topic: dcdirectactionnews
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Feb 2, 2016
02/16
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On the 2nd of February, a number of immigrant rights groups held a "Stop the Raids" press conference outside the White House before delivering over 130,000 signed petitions. The petitions were actually accepted by two White House staffers and sniffewd by the dog before being taken inside. Usually White House petition deliveries are refused, and often that leads to civil disobedience blockades. Before the delivery, speaker after speaker denounced the frankly terroristic raids on...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, immigration
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Apr 2, 2015
04/15
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On the 2nd of April, Residents of MD staged a rally in Annapolis demanding the enactment of a moratorium on gas fracking in the state. Although weakened limiting the moratorium to two years, the bill passed the MD House of Delegates by a veto-proof majority. Pressure is mounting on MD's GOP Governor Hogan to sign the bill once it clears the Senate, the overwhelming passage in the House of Delegates involved suppport from delegates of both political parties. One of them spoke at the rally...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, fracking
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Aug 13, 2014
08/14
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On the 12th of August, rain fell at thunderstorm intensity from early morning until mid-afternoon. That evening at almost 6PM, Beach Drive near Kensington Parkway was submerged under about 3 feet of water. Nearby residents told the TV News they had never seen anything like it. I did see one cyclist cross Beach Drive-wading though water up to his knees, thus the depth estimate. This is yet another example of the extreme weather that climate change is making more common and more severe.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, weather.flooding
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Dec 27, 2014
12/14
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Video of political protests and activsm spanning 2014 in Washington DC
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, 2014
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Jun 11, 2014
06/14
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On the 10th of June, members of multiple antiwar groups and a Muslim advocacy group showed up in front of the White House to welcome former POW Bowe Bergdahl's release, the release of 5 detainees from Gitmo, and condemn the vicious smear campaign the GOP has been mounting against Bowe. The activists demanded that the rest of the GITMO detainees be released as well, and one suggested trading them for the 3 US civilians currently being held by the Taliban. Another reminded everyone that prisoner...
Topics: Bowe Bergdahl, POW, dcdirectactionnews
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Sep 13, 2016
09/16
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At 7AM on the 12th of September, the Trump Hotel opened for business in the Old Post Office building,with a 99 year lease trump got thanks to help from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Protesters were outside opposing both the racism of Donald Trump and the giveaway of public property to this billionaire. Word is suites will be rented out for $500,000 a night on Inuaguration night, and normal rooms on normal nights for $800 with a 4 night minimum. None of those who rebuilt the Old Post Office building...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, Trump Hotel
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Apr 29, 2015
04/15
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On the 28th of April, as the curfew threatened peaceful protesters in Baltimore, solidarity protests began in DC. Protesters marched on the White House, only to find Obama's answer to the Question of Baltimore was to barricade the White House. Later a surprise "pop-up" protest blockaded 14th and U sts, and grew over time as bystanders joined in to reinforce the blockade.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, DCFerguson, Freddie Grey
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Jun 14, 2016
06/16
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On the 13th of June, the Toxic Prison March blockaded streets in front of the Bureau of Prisons, the FBI, and the Dept of Injustice after marching through rush hour traffic. Their primary demand was that proposed Federal supermax prisons at Letcher, KY and at Thomson, IL be cancelled as one site is a moutaintop removal site and the other a military Superfund site. Further demands included the release of ALL prisoners and closure of every prison on the continent. Many times in the march, chants...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, prisons, toxic waste
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Jun 30, 2017
06/17
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On the 29th of June, Metro bus and rail riders gathered outside the Columbia Heights Metro station to demand an end to fare hikes and service cuts, and that big developers and businesses that depend on Metrorail to make their billions pay their fare share of the cost of keeping the system running. A specific demand was a flat $2 fare for both bus and rail, and the restoration of late-night service. Metro's riders were backed by ATU Local 689, which represented Metro's workers, the folks without...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, WMATA
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Nov 14, 2014
11/14
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On the 13th of November, net neutrality activists responded to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's defiance of Obama's new pro-net neutrality position.They showed up at FCC headquarters for a party under cold rain mixed with snow, then took over the doorway in front of the building. Interestingly, only three security guards were able to respond to the call for help from the two or three guards inside, with the result that the effort by security guards to repulse the protesters was defeated and the...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, FCC, net neutrality
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Apr 15, 2016
04/16
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Cassandra Fairbanks
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Video posted by Cassandra Fairbanks to Twitter of US Capitol Police ordering support protesters for Democracy Spring sit-in #4 to leave the area. Protesters stand their ground. Unknown if any of today's arrests were of the solidarity protesters
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Democracy Spring
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Nov 30, 2014
11/14
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On the 29th of November, DC Ferguson protesters marched through Georgetown and shut down the streets. When the march headed out of Georgetown, marchers transitioned from the sidewalks to block shoppers who did not drive in from reaching the doors of upscale stores.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Ferguson, #DCFerguson
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Nov 30, 2014
11/14
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A Lakota woman speaking at the 11-29-2014 DC Ferguson protest. At the end she says "whose streets, our streets-tear up the concrete!"
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Ferguson, #dcferguson, Lakota
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Jan 20, 2017
01/17
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With trump supporters being turned away en masse from the Mall by checkpoing blockades, the police have turned violent. Hundreds of marchers in the Antifascist/Atnicapitalist Bloc were kettled, then unlawfully mass arrested after police firing tear gas for the first time in decades only temporarily dispersed the protesters. This was the first such mass arrest in 14 years. People are showing up "covered in pepper spray" at Disrupt J20's rear area safe spaces. Reports of journalists...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, #disruptJ20, black bloc
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Jun 13, 2016
06/16
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In defiance of the Orlando attack on a Gay bar, hundreds of thousands showed up at DC's Capitol Pride festival, the second day of a two-day event. Days earlier, the Washington Blade ran a cover showing Donald Trump wagging his finger and warning GLBTQ people to "Enjoy Pride-it may be your last." The day that was widely circulated was the same day Donald Trump spoke before the anti-Gay group Concerned Women for America. There are a great many theocratic ememies of GLBTQ rights, most...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, GLBTQ, Pride
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May 14, 2014
05/14
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On the 13th of May, DC residents opposing filling in McMillan Park protested outside the Zoning commission, then packed the hearing. McMillan Park was once DC's water filtration facility and is now a large parcel of green space. There are those who want to build condos with the "affordable" portion starting at $60,000 a year to qualify, plus office towers and some kind of health facility right next to Washington Hospital Center. This kind of green space is becoming increasingly rare,...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, gentrification, development, corruption
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Aug 8, 2014
08/14
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One minute from selected clips of confrontation between Syria/Iraq/Gaza "Protest4Unity" and Zionist counterprotesters. Cut from UntoldCarslysle's 1 hour 46 second Ustream (live) video. Full video at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/untoldcarlisle?utm_campaign=ustre.am&utm_source=ustre.am%2F1c8mP&utm_medium=social&utm_content=20140808111918
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Gaza, Syria, Iraq
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Apr 17, 2016
04/16
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On the 16th if April, DCMJ's full cannabis legalization activists returned to the White House, only to find Penn Ave closed, no doubt in fear of a return of the famous "51 foot joint." Undeterred, they headed to the H st side of Lafayette Park and give away cannabis seeds for free. The demand on the White House was simple: take cannabis off the DEA's "Schedule 1" total ban list. Speakers warned people within the formal park boundaries not to consume cannabis there-and not...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, DCMJ, cannabis
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Sep 9, 2014
09/14
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On the 9th of September, GLBTQ immigration rights activists held a rally at the White House demanding protection from deportation, which can be especially dangerous GLBTQ when people are returned to homophobic countries like Uganda or post-coup Honduras.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, immigration, GLBT, GLBTQ
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Mar 16, 2018
03/18
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John Zangas
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Video originally posted by John Zangas to www.dcmediagroup.us via Youtube of daytime portion of protest outside the home of FDA director Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Protest by ADAPT is demanding the FDA issue regulations prohibiting the use of electric shock as punishment in residential schools for the disabled. The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center is the only known institution in the US using shocks to control students at this time.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, ADAPT
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Jul 9, 2016
07/16
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On the 8th of July, Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets for a second evening in a row. Marchers started by circling the Department of Justice several times before heading to the White House. Demands at DOJ were for Federal civil rights investigations into all of the recent wave of police shootings of young African-American males. Some of the Federal Protective Services cops at the Department of Justice were armed with automatic rifles. Marchers also showed that the recent wave of...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Black Lives Matter
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Jun 10, 2016
06/16
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On the 10th of June, Donald Trump spoke before the "Road to Majority" conference, an event sponsored by the allegedly faith-based far-right group Concerned Women for America. Outside, protesters called out the hypocrisy of this, given that all major religions condemn the kind of xenophobia and hate Trump is peddling. About ten minutes into Trump's speech, Code Pink activists disrupted him and were expelled by force. Concerned Women for America is a notorious hate group themselves,...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, Code Pink
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Feb 10, 2015
02/15
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On the 10th of February, net neutrality activsts unfurled a banner reading "85% of republican voters support net neutrality" in front of Republican FCC commissioner Pai at an FCC press conference. In response they were tackled and assaulted by security guards, who in turn threatened to charge THEM with assault. FCC Commission Tom Wheeler (used to work for Cable TV) now says he is for Title II "common carrier" reclassification of ISP's, but Comcast and other ISP's are...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, net neutrality, FCC
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Aug 19, 2017
08/17
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More raw video from Charlottesville showing the Nazis in their various factions up close. Pay attention to the guy with the red beard circled near the end: he is wanted for a serious assault near the police sta
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Charlottesville
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Jul 30, 2016
07/16
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Video of DC's Critical Mass bike ride for July 2016
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, cycling, biking.Critical Mass
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Jan 27, 2017
01/17
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On the 26th of January, Donald Trump appeared at a 3 day GOP retreat in downtown Philiadelphia just blocks from the historic City Hall building. Several thousand protesters marched to the police barricades just one block away. Three issues dominated the protests: healthcare, the Keystone/DAPL pipeline executive orders, and Trump's racist wall/sanctuary city/deportation executive orders. This march was originally organized by supporters of the ACA and by AIDS activists who fear that chaos in...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, Philadelphia
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Jan 16, 2017
01/17
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On the 15th of January, refusefascism.org staged the second of their nightly street marches that begin with a 4PM rally at McPherson Square. This march went through Chinatown and then on to Trump Hotel. A tense confrontation ensued marchers surging against the hotel's barricades as security guards strained to hold them back. Eventually more guards and cops reinforced the barricade, foreclosing the possiblity of pushing through and storming the hotel-for that night. The march then left the...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, RefuseFascism.org
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Apr 26, 2015
04/15
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Protesters outside the police station near the Gilmor Homes housing development stick it to the cops for breaking Freddie Grey's neck.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Baltimore, Freddie Grey
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Jun 22, 2018
06/18
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Philip Louis
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On June 22, Homeland Security secretarty Kirstjen Nielson got an early morning surprise at her Alexandria townhouse. Before she could leave for work, protesters showed up playing audio of the children she helped to separate from their parents.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, immigration
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Jun 15, 2018
06/18
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On the 14th of June, migrant rights activists gathered for the "Families Belong Together" protest against the Trump/Sessions policy of separating families at the border, where screaming children are dragged away from their parents. DHS has admitted the sole purpose of this intentional torture of children is to deter others from crossing the border. Many of the protesters invoked Nazi Germany and called Trump's policy "evil." Note that the backing track at the start of this...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, immigration
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Oct 14, 2016
10/16
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DC Direct Action News
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On the 13th of October, the mainstream press was buzzing about the five women who have come forward to declare that they were sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. On that same day, hundreds picketed Trump's brand new luxury hotel in DC over yet another crime by Donald Trump: his flat refusal to honor the outcome of an election by workers at his Las Vegas hotel to seek union representation. At the Oct 13 picket, UNITE HERE called for a boycott of Trump's Old Post Office Hotel over his defiance of...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, UNITE HERE
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Sep 21, 2016
09/16
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jlstewct
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Representatives of the International Indigenous Youth Council have called on Senator Barrasso, chair of the Indian Affairs Committee, to hold a hearing on the Dakota Access Pipeline. He has refused to do so. On Sep 20, Youth Council representatives and allies delivered a message loud and clear to Barrasso's office.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, #NoDAPL, DAPL
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Jul 29, 2014
07/14
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On the 28th of July, immigrants, many of them students who received legal status because they were brought into the US as young children, showed up in front of the White House. They demanded that Obama "go big" and act unilaterally to provide legal status for their parents by executive action, thus bypassing GOP obstruction. Also present were many GLBT immigrants demanding similar relief for their partners or them
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, immigration, DREAM
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Feb 26, 2016
02/16
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Code Pink
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(video originally posted to Youtube by Code Pink) On the 26th of February, Code Pink released video of Medea Benjamin confronting US Secretary of State Kerry over US sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a Wahhabi theocracy known for whippings and beheadings, with few differences for its subjects from living in Daesh's so-called "caliphate." They spend billions gotten from the world oil market on promoting their fundamentalist visions in Muslim communities around the world...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Code Pink, Kerry
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Jan 16, 2017
01/17
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This is a promo for the upcoming #DisruptJ20 Counterinaugural protests using a WWII theme since Trump has been compared to Hitler by neo-Nazis themselves. As we stood against Fascism before, now it is time to stand against Fascism again. Let's not be "Good Germans" who stand by while millions are rounded up(as per Trump's deportation plans), let's rise up and meet the assault head-on!
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, DisruptJ20, #DisruptJ20
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Dec 1, 2014
12/14
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On the 1st of December, Ferguson protesters blocked the 14th st Bridge for about 1/2 hour in AM rush hour. This was the day after a similar protest blocked I-395 on perhaps the busiest travel day of the year. There was one ugly incident involving a motorist in an expensive Mercedes who tried to push through the blockade but was stopped. This was shortly after another motorist was allowed to pass after saying he was going to a dialysis appointment. Apparently letting one car pass made other...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Ferguson, #DCFerguson
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Nov 24, 2016
11/16
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DC Direct Action News
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This is a remix with music and some added, DC-specific clips of the Crimethinc/Anonymous video promoting the massive #DisruptJ20 Counterinaugural protests scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2017. Trump is a racist and a fascist, now is the time to fight him. Join the Resistance! Crimethinc has directly asked everyone to spread the word
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, #DisruptJ20, counterinaugural, Trump
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May 2, 2018
05/18
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On the 1st of May, DC's annual Mayday march proceeded from Columbia Heights to Malcolm X Park. Sights at the march and following rally included "Donald Trump" wearing a crown and a "back to work" sign, various union-themed games, and even a mock guillotine symbolic of the 1789 French Revolution. Expected fascist counterprotesters were a no-show and the entire event was uneventful and mostly family-friendly. It was announced during the DC march that at that time (noon...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, Mayday
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Dec 10, 2018
12/18
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DC Direct Action News
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On the 7th of December, members of a far-right group posted several stickers on the backs of street signs in DC, then published deceptive close-up photos making them look much larger. The next day they held an unannounced march in DC. That night, a DC activist followed the online posts to the offensive stickers, ripped them down, and burned the one that came down in large enough pieces.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake
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May 7, 2014
05/14
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On the 7th of May, Internet neutrality activists showed up in front of FCC headquarters, announcing the start of a 3 day presence. They are demanding that the FCC reclassify all Internet Service Providers as "common carriers" like phone companies are supposed to be
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, net neutrality, Occupy
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Jul 8, 2016
07/16
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Christine Kim
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Video originally uploaded by Christine Kim to Twitter of Black Lives Matter march near the US Capitol that had originated at the White House.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Black Lives Matter
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Dec 26, 2018
12/18
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Melissa Barlow
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Video posted by Melissa Barlow on Twitter of speaker condemning Trump for the death of an 8 year old boy in Border Patrol hands. Speech delivered at the Dec 25 "Kremlin Annex" protest outside the White House
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, #KremlinAnnex
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Dec 23, 2017
12/17
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Video features call for holding prosecutors accountable for this malicious prosecution, and three of the exonerated defendants speaking On the 22nd of December, three of the former J20 defendants acquitted by a jury on Dec 21 spoke at a victory rally held on Freedom Plaza. They and other speakers denounced the governments's so far failed attempt to abuse the legal process to suppress dissent under Donald Trump. At this point, the J20 trial scoreboard stands at six acquitted, 188 more to go. A...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, DisruptJ20
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May 6, 2016
05/16
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DC Direct Action News
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On the 5th of May, high-level Saudi and Israeli officials met at the so-called "Mandarin Oriental" hotel in SW DC. Code Pink got a team inside before they were escorted back out. Code Pink then set up a noisy "teach-in" protest outside. Everyone in earshot heard about how both the Saudis and Israelis are among the worst human rights violators and sponsors of war in the entire Middle East. The Saudis were also called out for beheading people just like Daesh(ISIS) does and for...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, #IsraeliSaudi, Code Pink
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Nov 9, 2016
11/16
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Mike Bivens
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Video by Mike Bivens of protesters burning US flag in anti-Trump protest. He was shooting video of Portland protests, so presumably this was in the portland trump protests. The US flag now stands for white supremacy and racism, just as it did before when it flew over slave plantations before the Civil War and flew over US Army massacres of Native Americans. Like the German Nazi flag it deserves to burn.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Trump, flag burning
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Dec 20, 2014
12/14
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DC Direct Action News
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In the last year 55 homeless people have died on the streets of DC-55 too many. On the 19th of December, after an all-night vigil on Freedom Plaza, the People for Fairness Coalition marched a casket representing these 55 people from the plaza to the NY Ave Presbyterian Church, and from there to Mitch Snyder's gravesite.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, homeless, homelessness, funeral
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Aug 12, 2014
08/14
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DC Direct Action News
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On the 11th of August, Code Pink staged a protest in front of the White House demanding an end to renewed US bombing in Iraq. Nobody trusts Obama with this anymore than George W Bush, and the US is known to fight for geopolitical influence and oil, not for human rights or to rescue refugees. We shall see when all the Yasizi refugees are off that beseiged mountain position in Iraq what Obama's true intentions are with this war. None of us thought in 1990 that we would still be protesting the...
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Code Pink, Iraq
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Sep 6, 2018
09/18
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DC Direct Action News
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Video from second day's rally outside the US Capitol during the over 12 hour Day 2 of confirmation hearings for Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. A Latina woman who was one of the first Latinas ever elected to the Nev statehouse discusses the death threats and harassment she got from the far-right after going public about getting an abortion.
Topics: dcdirectactionnews, Iron Snowflake, #StopKavanaugh
